- Paperback: 382 pages
- Publisher: HarperNewYork; New Ed edition (2 Mar 1998)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0060929030
- ISBN-13: 978-0060929039
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 339,273 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In Mastering the Zone, bestselling author Dr. Barry Sears reveals that the first step on the road to SuperHealth is just a single meal away. What is SuperHealth? SuperHealth is a permanently enhanced quality of life: looking better, feeling better, strenthening the immune system, and slowing down the physiological agin process. And SuperHealth is a state that everyone can achieve.
More than 150 delicious new zone recipes. Dr Sears’s mouthwatering, perfectly Zone balanced, and easy-to-prepare meals taste so good you’ll never want to eat out of the Zone again.
A day in the Zone. A week in the Zone. Mastering the Zone includes guidelines for ordering in, eating out, and shopping, with information on how to read nutrition labels and mix and match foods while staying effortlessly in the Zone.
Zone meal templates. The Zone meal templates provided in this book will help you to create your own Zone meals.
Zone Rules of Thumb. These handy Zone rules make it easy to hit the precise Zone balance every time you eat, without any complicated calculations.
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MASTER THE ZONE RULES TO SUPERHEALTH
In his first book, the phenomenal number one 'New York Times ' best-seller 'The Zone', Dr. Barry Spears sparked a revolution with his startling revelations that eating fat doesn't make you fat and that high-carbohydrate bagel and pasta diet of most Americans might be the real risk to our national health. Now in 'Mastering the Zone', Dr. Sears provides you with a vast new array of tools, techniques, and tricks that will help you achieve Superhealth:
• THE ZONE MADE SIMPLE. 'Matering the Zone' gives you a practical, step-by-step guide that will show you how easy it is to get into the Zone.
• MORE THAN 150 DELICIOUS NEW ZONE RECIPES. Dr. Sears's mouth-watering, perfectly Zone balanced, and easy-to-prepare meals taste so good, you'll never want to eat out again.
• A DAY IN THE ZONE. A WEEK IN THE ZONE. 'Mastering the Zone' gives you clear examples of what a typical day and week in the Zone look like if you are a man, a woman, an athlete, or a couch potato
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• ZONE MEAL TEMPLATES. The Zone meal templates provided in this book help you to create your own Zone meals.
• ZONE RULES OF THUMB. These handy Zone rules make it easy to hit the precise Zone balance every time you eat, without any complicated calculations.
• EAT IN, DINE OUT, AND GO SHOPPING IN THE ZONE. 'Mastering the Zone' includes guidelines for ordering in, eating out, and shopping, with information on how to read nutrition labels and mix and match foods while staying effortlessly in the Zone.
• WAYS TO ADAPT THE ZONE PROGRAM TO YOUR UNIQUE BIOCHEMISTRY, LIFESTYLE AND GOALS. No two people are alike, so why should your diet be? In 'Mastering the Zone', learn how to set a starting point, choose goals based on your own personal activity level and desired results, evaluate your progress on the Zone plan, and fine-tune your program for even more superior results.
'Mastering the Zone' will show you how to track your new-found health and make SuperHealth a reality. You'll look trimmer and feel more alert, and your health will be better than ever before. And you'll be able to do it effortlessly. So power up. After all, it's your life.
DR. BARRY SEARS, PH.D., is a widely published researcher and scientist who serves as president of Massachussets-based biotechnology firm, Eicotech Corporation. He is the author of the best-selling book, 'The Zone ', and lives in Swampscott, Massachussets, with his family.
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61 of 61 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A Diet that actually works and the weight falls off without slogging in the gym or starving yourself. It's easy to keep to as long as you don't have a major hang-up about excluding pasta, rice, bread & bagels from your diet. I've lived on these products for years, all low-fat, but I never lost any weight. I was desparate to lose some weight, exclusion of these seemed a small price to pay. The Zone basically works with a ratio of 40-30-30 ie. 40% of your foods come from Carbs (fruit, veg), 30% from Protein (Chicken, Tofu, Fish, Cheese), 30% from Fats (Olive Oil, Almonds, Avodcado (Good Fats)). Each person has a unique programme to stick to - in accordance with your current weight and fitness level. You eat, in my case, 5 times a day - 3 meals and 2 snacks. That's it. I don't exercise, I merely walk about 1/2hour a day, nothing strenuous. I've lost 15lbs in 2 months. I've excess energy and am not tired as soon as I come home from work. I wake up not feeling like I need 10 more hours sleep! It's a great way to lose weight, improve your health, feel good about yourself. Thoroughly recommend it, and the books that follow it: Zone Meals in Minutes and Mastering The Zone. There is also a book for vegetarians: The Soy Zone.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
A friend recommended this book to me because of the great results he'd had following it. I bicycle quite a bit, and had been on a very high complex carb, very low fat, protein--what's that? diet for several years. My "healthy" diet gave me low cholesterol (154), but I had extremely high triglycerides (382), low HDL (30), low LDL (48). In short, this shows impending heart disease. Doctor's advice? Exercise. Well, I was already doing that. I cut out even more fat. I was constantly hungry, had headaches, and rarely felt terribly well.
After following the Zone diet for just two days, I felt great and was never hungry, in fact had trouble eating all the food sometimes. I've never felt better in my life. I've been on it almost two weeks now, and have lost over 3 pounds, all from my waist, that I'd never been able to lose before no matter how much I biked. I have far more energy for bicycling than I previously had, and my physical condition has greatly improved. I require less sleep and am less tired than I was before. I know my next blood test will be next to perfect. I'm on the Zone for life. It's simple, the basic principles to follow are summarized in five sentences. I've never really "dieted" before, just modified my food choices and behavior. Unfortunately, I'd been doing it all wrong. Now I know what's right, thankfully not too late.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Learning how to balance my hormonal carburator make me feel alive again,after having my baby I'd never came back to have the fully well being that I always used to enjoy before,most the time I felt tired,so something was missing, something was wrong, but I never found the answer to what was happening to me, I tried many diets, I read many books, I went to the doctor,but not answer to help my exhausted body, some day I found in a web site which was in a e-mail for me, the book so it was the miracle for me I read the the review of publisher,and I thought, it sounds well, I have to find it as soon as possible, because I don't live in U.S.A. , the same day my sister Elizabeth invited me to take lunch,she as me ,likes to diet and to feel healthy, for my surprise the book was in the bookshelf of her kitchen so I began to read it, and I discovered that people with blood "O" have different resistance to glycemic foods, I began to eat according to Zone's diets and my energy and attitude changed, know I enjoy reading and writing again, exercising,going out,calling my friends,because before this I have no energy,I am not totally recovery yet,but while I'm eating the Zone recipes I may say that I've come back to life. For me and my work it is important to keep a powerful mental performance, I am a translator and for me being alert and sharp minded is basic.If some day you need to translate something from your book from english to spanish, please let me know, I'm sure it'd help many people who do not know how to eat and to enjoy a plentyfull life.I hope to impove my health, I will write again to know more about the Zone to achieve a gold level. Thank you very much, sinceryly your dear friend : Beatrice.
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For carnivorous
This is a variation of the Atkinson diet, only stricter and more complicated. If you want to lose weight there are easier or healthier ways! Read more
Published 21 months ago by Camomillla
Excellent
I have lost 8 lbs in the first 16 days and I am never hungry on this diet. It is the best I have ever went on and I can imagine it will probably be the last as you can eat normal... Read more
Published on 12 May 1999
too complicated
I thought a block of protein was 7gr - I'm reading Woman's World 7/28/98 magazine - Sandra Bullocks - one of her meals BBQ Chicken Salad has 36 gr of protein, 10 gr of fat and 54... Read more
Published on 4 May 1999
The best thing that has ever happenned to my health.
After sufferring the lost of my fiance' Sept 96, needless to say I was grief stricken, not eating well and for that matter not sleeping. Could'nt get it together. Read more
Published on 19 April 1999
Readers please beware of fad diets!!!
Diets such as the zone diet do not exhibit balanced nutrition as is found in the food guide pryamid. Read more
Published on 26 Feb 1999
It's fantastic!
At first I thought it was too good to be true. Almost every review raved about this diet. I have tried this plan for the past 4 weeks and am amazed how quickly the weight came... Read more
Published on 8 Feb 1999
It works for me!
My doctor has been telling me to lose weight for the past two years. Each time I started to diet, I was so hungry that I was soon back to my old eating habits. Read more
Published on 13 Dec 1998
Diabeties Type II
I was recently diagnoised with Type II Diabeties. I was also lightly overwieght by about 20Lb, which also contributited to my problem of dealing with sugars and insulin. Read more
Published on 12 Dec 1998
Where was this book ten years ago?
After reading Dr. Sears' book, it didn't take long for me to become extremely motivated in not only losing weight, but in achieving a permanent healthy lifestyle. Read more
Published on 20 Nov 1998
I love the fat foods I can have: avocados, olives, almonds!
I don't feel deprived. A client told me she lost 60 pounds on it. That she'd tried it all. I was desperate enough with middle age spread to give it a go. Read more
Published on 16 Oct 1998
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